to: incorporate Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 1) 2017 to correct the customs duty rate for mosaic tiles; simplify the classification of machining centres able to perform two or more machining operations with an automatic tool change; reclassify paraquat dichloride; extend the concession for automotive prototype and components to automotive service providers; remove the $12 000 special customs duty on used and second-hand motor vehicles; and make technical amendments to certain tariff subheadings.

to preserve section 501 character decisions made relying on information provided by gazetted law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which is protected, or purportedly protected, from disclosure under section 503A.

to provide greater flexibility to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation in its activities, including the use of its property, facilities and resources for science, technology, innovation and training purposes.

Introduced with the Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017, the bill amends: the

Broadcasting Services Act 1992

to: abolish the ‘75% audience reach rule’, which prohibits commercial television broadcasting licensees from controlling licences whose combined licence area populations exceed 75 per cent of the Australian population; abolish the ‘2 out of 3 cross-media control rule’, which prohibits control over more than two out of three regulated media platforms in any one commercial radio licence area; provide additional local programming obligations for regional commercial television broadcasting licensees; and require the Australian Communications and Media Authority to undertake a review by 1 July 2021; the

Broadcasting Services Act 1992

and Broadcasting Services (Events) Notice (No. 1) 2010 to amend measures relating to the anti-siphoning scheme and the anti-siphoning notice, including extending the automatic delisting period and removing the multi-channelling rule; and five Acts to provide for collection and assessment arrangements for the new transmitter licence tax. Also establishes a transitional support payment scheme for certain commercial broadcasters; and repeals the Broadcasting Services (Datacasting Charge) Regulations 2001,

to require the Minister for Foreign Affairs to deny a passport or demand the surrender of a foreign travel document when an Australian citizen is on a state or territory child sex offender register with reporting obligations; and

Criminal Code Act 1995

to create an offence for a registered child sex offender with reporting obligations to travel, or attempt to travel, overseas without permission from a relevant authority.

to adjust the rate of excise-equivalent customs duty on tobacco other than stick form over four years to align it with the amount of duty applying to the average per stick tobacco content of cigarettes.